All
weekend, perhaps after the Regions, head down to Railroad Park for Symphony in the
Summer - a series of free concerts by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m.

The Alabama Shakes are also playing
sold-out shows Friday and Saturday nights at Sloss Furnaces, if you want to
scalp up a ticket.

This day in history: On this day in 1892, U.S. President Benjamin Harrison -
or Benji, as I like to call him - attended a baseball game, becoming the first
president to do so.

In 1899, a
teetotaler named Carrie Nation, fed up with inaction on the alcohol issue, just
starts going nuts on bars,
taverns, and saloons in Kansas, vandalizing them, and she wouldn't stop for
some time.

On this day
in 1964, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church reopened after its 1963 bombing, according to BhamWiki.